On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 16:20:25 -0500, Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Just ran across a bug in IMCC. > >The .const directive is incorrectly available only within a .sub/.end >block. Silly. (And wrong) That makes it very difficult to usefully >use constants--generally they're defined at the top of a file (or in >a file which is .included) and visible through the rest of the >compilation unit. > >When someone gets a chance to patch this one up, I'd much appreciate it. There's no file level locals yet either ;-) Can I ask a stupid question? Guess I'm going to anyway... Is there much benefit to .const, over sticking a value in a register and not modifying it? (which is what I've done to get round this) How much benefit for a heavily used 0/1 flag? What about a lightly used string? Pete
